Crown Peter Craig giving opening statement. He thanks jurors for their service and says “you’ve been plucked out of your lives”. He says the trial is expected to take about 6 weeks and he says the Crown case will take about 2 weeks. #nscourt

Craig tells jurors they will hear Greenwood in his own words because he gave an interview to police. Craig says the Crown will also play a wiretap conversation between Greenwood and an undercover police officer. #nscourt

Craig describes testimony he expects Mike Lawrence to give. Craig tells jurors that Lawrence hitch hiked and was picked up by a man in a pickup truck. Craig says Lawrence killed the truck owner in order to use his vehicle in a robbery. #nscourt

Craig says Lawrence has pleaded guilty to murdering the truck owner and Mersereau and Christensen. Craig “I’m not asking you to embrace Mike Lawrence but we are going to ask you to believe him.” #nscourt

Craig says while they were initially to commit a robbery but those plans changed drastically on the orders of another man, Curtis Lynds. Craig says Lynds’ orders were to kill Mersereau and Christensen. #nscourt

McKenzie lived in a trailer beside Mersereau and Christensen with her daughter and 2 grandchildren. She says she knew them for about 8 years and they were good neighbours. She saw them every day walking their dogs. #nscourt

McKenzie says she saw Mersereau and Christensen around Noon. She says Mersereau was just in his underpants and had his 18month old child with him. This testimony is coming from a computer speaker. As stated before, McKenzie is deceased. #nscourt

McKenzie says she called 911. “They were murdered back there.” McKenzie says 911 operator asked her to go back to the house. “There was nothing I could do, right? I was already there and I wasn’t going back.” #nscourt

McKenzie says the house was clean and she noticed two teacups on the kitchen table for Mersereau and Christensen. Greenwood’s original defence lawyer now questioning McKenzie on the audio recording from the earlier trial. #nscourt

Audio playback ends. Crown moves to living witness, RCMP Cpl Glenn Ronald Bonvie. He says he’d only been a Mountie for 4 months when he got the call about Christensen and Mersereau’s homicides. #nscourt

Bonvie says they got a 911 call about a possible double 10-7, homicides. About 4 officers responded with lights and sirens to the address they’d been given in Centre Burlington. He says it took about 15 minutes to get there. #nscourt

Bonvie says this happened in a very rural area and the home was at the end of a long, straight gravel driveway. He got there at 3:36pm. He says his “adrenaline was going through the roof.” He saw a man standing on the front yard. #nscourt

Bonvie says he noticed bullet holes in the glass of a door. He says the glass eventually fell out. He says he stayed in the house until the forensic identification team arrived. Then he moved outside to guard the perimeter. #nscourt